Facebook's continuing decline has struck fear among investors, who wonder how low the company's shares might fall. Facebook went off earlier this month at $38, only to watch its stock plummet in subsequent days. At its current price, Facebook shares are down more than 23 percent since the IPO.

As Facebook's price has declined, so too has its market capitalization. In fact, the company's current market cap values the company at about $63 billion. When the company went public, its market value was about $104 billion. In other words, it has lost more than two Yahoos worth of value (the online company has a market cap of $18.7 billion) in less than two weeks.

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